-Weâve built Maps right into SketchUp. Adding a geo-location to your model is now an elegant, one-app process.

Color imagery and more accurate terrain

-The snapshot you get when you add a geo-location to your model now includes 3D terrain data thatâs more accurate, and -- for the first time -- aerial imagery in color.

Match Photo improvements

-Our Match Photo feature lets you trace one or more photographs to build a model; itâs an incredibly powerful tool. For SketchUp 8, weâve tweaked some things to make using Match Photo easier than ever.

SketchUp, meet Building Maker

-When it comes to modeling existing buildings, itâs hard to beat Google Building Maker for speed and efficiency. Weâve made it simpler to open and refine Building Maker models in SketchUp.

The Google SketchUp Help Center has articles that will answer your questions and provides a search capability so you can look for issues of interest. To visit the Help Center, feel free to check out http://sketchup.google.com/support/

Our download page at http://www.sketchup.com/?section=downloads provides you with some additional software, including some Ruby scripts and additional components that can be used with SketchUp Pro 6.

The 3D Warehouse provides models from other SketchUp users that you can download and use! You can also place your models in the warehouse at http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ for others to see!

SketchUp now supports Leopard.

AutoCAD 2007 Support: The major thrust of maintenance release 4 is support for AutoCAD 2007 DWG import and export!

We also made a few other fixes for localization purposes.

There was one Ruby fix that also supports the AutoCAD 2007 initiative which is the ability to suppress results dialog box on DWG export.